The Holocaust

The ________________ were primarily used as a station for gathering and holding Jews until deportation; separated from the rest of the city by walls or fences.

• ghettos
• concentrations camps
• extermination camps

_______________________________ is to have an extreme hatred for the Jews.

• The Holocaust
• Discrimination
• Anti-semitism
• Mischling

Kristallnacht was a state sponsored attack on the Jews and their property; therefore, it can be described as a _______________________.

• Holocaust
• genocide
• untermenschen
• pogrom

The _____________was the ‘army’ of the Nazi Party; overseeing the concentration camps, ghettos, and serving as Hitler’s personal bodyguards.

• Einsatzgruppen
• The SS or schutzstaffel
• gestapo
• the Blackshirts

In 1935, the ____ denied Jews German citizenship, segregated Jews from society and also established degrees of “Jewish-ness” based on family ancestry.

• The Enabling Act
• The Nuremberg Laws
• The Reich Fire Decree
• The Wannsee Conference Laws

This term was first used in the late 1950’s to describe the systematic torture and murder of Europe’s Jews: ________

• genocide
• Holocaust
• anti-semitism
• Kristallnacht

A German word, Untermenschen, meaning “___ -___” used by the Nazis to refer to the groups they deemed undesirable.

• sub-human
• mixed-breed

A Nazi term,  ______, or “mongrel” that denoted people having both Christian and Jewish ancestry.

• untermenschen
• aryan
• mischling

There were six of these built, all in Poland, for the sole purpose of killing as many people as possible: ____ .

• labor camps
• ghettos
• gas chambers
• death camps

______,  a pogrom that occurred on November 9-10, 1938 when Germans were urged to burn synagogues, loot businesses and homes of Jews, and even torture or kill Jews.

• Judenrat
• Kristallnacht
• Nuremberg
• Wannsee